I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country,to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in...There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place,a place where you can reckon with yourself.- Sam Shepard

Democracy's a very fragile thing.You have to take care of democracy.As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allowit to turn into scare tactics,it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else.It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.- Sam Shepard

I'm a writer.The more I act, the more resistance I have to it.If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrappedfor a certain part of time,but you know you're getting out.I'm also earning enough to keep my horses,buying some time to write.- Sam Shepard

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments.You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds.You really earn your spurs acting onstage.I needed to do that for myself.I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.- Sam Shepard

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